Nowhere, Exactly: On Identity and Belonging by Vassanji, M. G.
Nowhere, Exactly: On Identity and Belonging by Vassanji, M. G.

Nowhere, Exactly: On Identity and Belonging

From one of Canada's most celebrated writers, two-time Giller Prize winner M.G. Vassanji, comes a thoughtful meditation...
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Nowhere, Exactly: On Identity and Belonging by Vassanji, M. G.

Nowhere, Exactly: On Identity and Belonging

$50.29
Nowhere, Exactly: On Identity and Belonging by Vassanji, M. G.

Nowhere, Exactly: On Identity and Belonging

$50.29
Author: M. G. Vassanji
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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From one of Canada's most celebrated writers, two-time Giller Prize winner M.G. Vassanji, comes a thoughtful meditation on what it means to belong in the world.

Home is never a single place, entirely and unequivocally. It is contingent. The abstract "nowhere," then, is the true home.

M.G. Vassanji has been exploring the immigrant experience for over three decades, drawing deeply on his own transnational upbringing and intimate understanding of the unique challenges and perspectives born from leaving one's home to resettle in a new land. The question of identity, of how to configure and see oneself within this new land, is one such challenge faced. But Vassanji suggests that a more fundamental and slippery endeavour than establishing one's identity is how, if ever, we can establish a sense of belonging. Can we ever truly belong in this new home? Did we ever truly belong in the home we left? Where exactly do we belong? For many, the answer is nowhere exactly.

Combining brilliant prose, thoughtful, candid observation, and a lifetime of exploring how we as individuals are shaped by the places and communities in which we live and the history that haunts them, Nowhere, Exactly examines with exquisite sensitivity the space between identity and belonging, the immigrant experience of both loss and gain, and the weight of memory and nostalgia, guilt and hope felt by so many of those who leave their homes in search of new ones.

Author: M. G. Vassanji
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Published: 03/26/2024
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.80w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780385696562

About the Author
M.G. VASSANJI won the Giller Prize for The Book of Secrets and The In-Between World of Vikram Lall, and the Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction for A Place Within: Rediscovering India. His novel The Assassin's Song was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction. His novel Nostalgia was a finalist in Canada Reads 2017. His forthcoming novel, Everything There Is, will publish in Fall 2023.
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